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Minimalist Brand Identity for Your Cat

June 13, 2019 by mbonneville

This made me laugh. People are great…
Zebrapets asked our team at Robin Design Studio to create a visual language, concepts, packaging and identity for their brand. The goal was to introduce the new pet brand to the German market in a fresh, bold and minimalist way. We used two basic main colours: black & white, because there is a serious colour-chaos in the shelves of the pet shops (and we all know the Von Restorff Effect).

Filed Under: Graphic Design, Made Me Laugh, Minimalist

Pen & Ink & Pepper

June 13, 2019 by Douglas Bonneville

The Chilli Jive, Vincent Bal, Shadowology, 2019 from r/Art

Filed Under: Art, Made Me Laugh, Pen & Ink

Effective graphic: how not to stretch

June 5, 2019 by Douglas Bonneville

Effective graphic on how not to stretch Just bought the classic Stretching book by Bob Anderson and was delighted by this very instructive and memorable example on how not to stretch. I, nor you, will ever do it wrong again :-).

Filed Under: Made Me Laugh

How to fix the Firefox memory leak on Mac OS and Windows, once and for all, like a boss

July 1, 2011 by Douglas Bonneville

Some of you will love this, and some of you are going to flame me. I don’t care about the haters though. Even though a fellow TYPO3 developer friend pointed out regarding my solution, “There has to be a better way. There probably is”, I’m posting this as a help to all the Firefox users of the world who are sick to death of the phantom Firefox memory leaks. We all know Firefox leaks memory for one reason or another. It’s been years. Plugins have come and gone and Firefox just leaks all the time. Period. What to do? It’s time to hit Firefox with a sledgehammer. Like a boss. … [Read More]

Filed Under: Made Me Laugh

Gap’s new crowdsourced logo unveiled after rebranding fail

October 7, 2010 by Douglas Bonneville

(UPDATE 10/12/2010: Gap has pulled their new logo and their crowdsourcing wunder-blunder attempt at damage control. Nonetheless, I hope my contribution of humorous satire for this sad episode has some residual therapeutic value for all parties involved.) 🙂

Gap selected my crowdsource entry for their logo design contest! I won a Gap shopping spree for $20 (limited to the sale rack in the back) plus I get to put the new logo in my portfolio! Here goes:

… [Read More]

Filed Under: Made Me Laugh

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